A Swift Kick in the Butt
Taylor Brooke Brewery, Woodstock
August 2019
Sigh. Like… a deep, heavy sigh.
We’ve hit the wall, folks. Here we are in September 2019, nearing 100 breweries in our fair little state and we should all be rejoicing in that fact. But we knew this would happen, right? No way can you have … [Read more...]

Canterbury: Complete!
D&G Pizza and Pub
Here is my list of everything I've done in Canterbury!
I’m very excited to write this page. This is the 15th of what may ultimately be 169 town completion celebration pages! Yes, of course I am fully aware of how absurd that is. But I love it.
For those of you … [Read more...]

CT National Historic Landmark
Prudence Crandall House
1 South Canterbury Road (Junction of Routes 14 & 169), Canterbury
It took me 13 years of writing this website to visit the Prudence Crandall Museum. Granted, Canterbury isn't exactly down the street from me, but I had driven by it a dozen times probably. And … [Read more...]

Prudence Crandall House
1 South Canterbury Road (Junction of Routes 14 & 169), Canterbury
I'm going to flip the Freedom Trail site's ordering of information here and put this first: In 1994, Prudence Crandall was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and in 1995, Crandall was designated as … [Read more...]

Prudent and P.C.
Canterbury (Google Maps location)
June 8, 2019
Yes, I've finally visited the Prudence Crandall Museum. On the face of it, it's "just another" large Georgian historic House museum on a quiet back road in Connecticut. One of a hundred. Heck, travel routes 69 and 14 starting at the Prudence Crandall … [Read more...]

Everything Plainfield
I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Plainfield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. After all, that is the ultimate goal of … [Read more...]

Plainfield’s Town Trails
You have no business being here. But here you are. On a dead-end page with nothing of any interest on it. For Plainfield has no town trails as best as I can tell.
Now, please don't get confused. There are several trails in Plainfield - trails worth hiking even. But I list them … [Read more...]

Canterbury Trails
Robert Manship Park & Kinne Preserve
Canterbury, June 2019
I had to find trails to hike in Canterbury. I just had to. Why? So that I could write the title "Canterbury Trails". I would have cleared, blazed, and walked my own darn trail if I had to.
Which was almost the case, but … [Read more...]

Cleaved
Moses Cleaveland's Birth and Grave Sites
Canterbury
Cleveland. The “Mistake by the Lake.” Always the butt of jokes. So much so that Connecticut makes fun of it. That’s when you know you have an identity problem. It goes beyond the Cuyahoga River being on fire and the perennial ineptitude of the Browns and … [Read more...]

Canterbury Tales
Canterbury (Google Maps location)
June 8, 2019
There's a good chance that you are not familiar with Canterbury, Connecticut. And that's fine. I mean, it's not like it's home to one of the most important abolitionist educators that ever lived. Or was the birth - and final resting - place of the … [Read more...]